Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson

by William Maginn, James Hogg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, et al.

Book Overview

The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition. This anthology brings together twenty-nine of the greatest horror stories of the period, from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199685444
• ISBN13: 9780199685448
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"